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Re: Paper negatives

Those look like positives.

Seriously, I'm a bit confused exactly what you mean. Are you shooting paper in the camera then contact printing it? I've used paper negatives in the very old days by printing slide film on Panalure then contact printing that, to get a positive BW from a positive color transparency, but that was the extent of it, and it was so long ago I don't even remember what the results were like.

Re: Paper negatives

Seriously, I'm a bit confused exactly what you mean. Are you shooting paper in the camera then contact printing it?.

well yes!

Photographic papers are used in stead of film.

Very simple - very quick and sometimes interesting...

Papers are ortho chromatic, so especially with portraits you can get some interesting results. (Reds get dark - a redhead will get black hair... lips tends to get dark - hints of freckles are "brought to life" - and on the other hand, the "white" in the eyes (which are more bluish naturally) tends to get whiter than "normal"....

The negatives are used to make contact prints (these are scans, so an original print will look a little different, as you will see the fibers of the paper in the print. (can look great, by the way).

You can "manipulate" or retuch, by using a pencil on the back - or red lipstick if you want to make areas totally white.

Re: Paper negatives

Great idea. As I am running out of film, and just bought some x-ray film, I was curious what positives from paper negs would look like. I think I still have some very out of date 8X10 paper...some that is about 35 years old even. Could be fun...or disappointing, but worth a try

Re: Paper negatives

Humm. I'd certainly try it, as it's so cheap, if I had an 8x10 camera. With only a 4x5 I'd be stuck with 4x5 contact prints - large enough to view, but a bit small to display. Might be fun to experiment with anyway.

Gives me another reason to miss Panalure. I could really use it for BW from color negs again, and it would be a panchromatic paper for this.

Can't one of the small European makers make a panchromatic paper? If they can make contact speed papers they can make a Panalure replacement. Pretty please?

Oh yes - are you using graded papers? Graded paper is not really orthochromatic; it's blue sensitive. VC paper is also green sensitive, but the contrast would vary with the color of the subject.

I think I tossed my decade out of date paper last time I was in TN though. (It was all VC anyway.)